Medium
Security advisory
Checkstyle before 8.18 loads external DTDs by default.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-9658
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Checkstyle before 8.18 loads external DTDs by default.
osv:CVE-2019-9658
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-9658",
"method": "structured",
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"severity": "medium",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:50:36.249855171Z",
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"references": [
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"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a35a8ccb316d4c2340710f610cba8058e87d5376259b35ef3ed2bf89%40%3Cnotifications.accumulo.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fff26ee7b59360a0264fef4e8ed9454ef652db2c39f2892a9ea1c9cb%40%3Cnotifications.fluo.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rda99599896c3667f2cc9e9d34c7b6ef5d2bbed1f4801e1d75a2b0679%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2BMOPJ2XYE4LB2HM7OMSUBBIYEDUTLWE/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AEYBAHYAV37WHMOXZYM2ZWF46FHON6YC/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJPT54USMGWT3Y6XVXLDEHKRUY2EI4OE/",
"https://checkstyle.org/releasenotes.html#Release_8.18",
"https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/6474",
"https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/6478",
"https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/6476",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00029.html"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 442333,
"published_at": "2019-03-11T05:29:00.617+00:00"
}